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Treatment with a skin microbe protects captive toads against a lethal fungal infection.Valerie McKenzie at the University of Colorado Boulder and her colleagues compared the skin microbiomes of endangered boreal toads (Anaxyrus boreas; pictured) reared in captivity with hose of wildread more

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